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A New Yardstick of Comparison for Contrastive Interlanguage Analysis

A Study on the ICNALE Global Rating Archives

Authors
Shin’ichiro Ishikawa1, *
1Kobe University, Kobe, Japan
*Corresponding author. Email: iskwshin@gmail.com
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Shin’ichiro Ishikawa
Available Online 18 May 2023.
DOI
10.2991/978-2-38476-054-1_52How to use a DOI?
Keywords
ICNALE; Learner Corpus Research; Contrastive Interlanguage Analysis; Reference/Yardstick
Abstract

In the field of learner corpus research, there has been a discussion about what data should be adopted as a reference or a yardstick for contrastive interlanguage analysis (CIA). Utilising the data taken from the ICNALE Global Rating Archives, the author identified a set of Asian learner essays whose quality is guaranteed by a great number of raters having different L1, regional, and occupational backgrounds, and he also examined the possibility of using them as an alternative to the conventional native speaker reference data. This paper discussed three research questions and revealed that (i) among four ENS essays, only one was rated as Level A (70% +), (ii) among 136 learner essays, nine were rated as Level A; and (iii) the choice of a different yardstick (i.e., the essays of native speaker students, the essays of native speaker working adults, and Level A learner essays) leads to the identification of different sets of overused/underused words. These findings will require us to reconsider the type of a yardstick to be adopted in CIA and also the type of an L2 output model to be presented in L2 classrooms from a new angle.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 20th AsiaTEFL-68th TEFLIN-5th iNELTAL Conference (ASIATEFL 2022)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
18 May 2023
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10.2991/978-2-38476-054-1_52
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2352-5398
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